Healthy Habits for Happy Devs
This challenge is about nourishing our bodies, minds, and spirits to become healthier developers.
The goal is to build a new habit that will make you a healthier developer. This can be mind- and body-centered (drink, move, read, meditate, rearrange your workstation), code-centered (review your README, clean your code, refresh your GitHub repo), or both. Set your goal this month and define what successfully completing the challenge looks like — for example, reviewing the README in five of your projects (one every week) or running 2k twice a week.
Read our Monthly Challenge Facilitators Handbook to learn how to handle tasks before and after challenges, as well as the technical guidelines.
Async Check-Ins Time
Wednesdays, 9:00 AM ET
Prompts
Below are previous prompts for our kick-off announcements and async check-ins.
Kick-Off Announcement 2023
📢 New monthly challenge!
This month, we’re focused on building healthy habits! To learn more about the challenge, check out @member-name's {link to blogpost}, join the `#monthly-challenge` channel for accountability, and check out some of the things we regularly do at VC to promote healthy habits:
- Monday weekly goals in `#goals-and-wins`.
- Wednesday midweek check-ins in `#general`.
- Friday gratitude posts in `#general`.
- Gratitude that you can drop anytime in `#gratitude`.
Let us know if you'd like to see anything else!
Async Check-Ins 2023
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Week 1
How are you working on building healthy habits this week? -
Week 2-4
How’d the habit-building go last week? What are you working on this week?
Slack Channels
Slack channels that we use for the challenge:
#announcement- Kick-off announcement
#monthly-challenge- Challenge announcements
- Monday weekly check-ins
#goals-and-wins- Monday weekly goals
#general- Wednesday midweek check-ins
- Friday gratitude posts
#gratitude- Members' gratitude during the challenge
Past Challenges
- August 2023
- August 2022
- August 2021